Unit 19 Don't forget to remember
Read the following sets of numbers,it shouldn't take you more than about ten seconds,876,935,290,143,841,986,405.Believe it or not,there are people who can read these numbers as quick as flash and remember them for the rest of their lives.They have photograph memories that can see something and store it in their minds forever,like a camera captures something forever on film.Scientists think that about one person in 5000 has the remarkable power to remember. A 23 years old American University student may have her mark by being able to read poems in foreign languages she had never studied.She could also recite the poems later without any help.She explained that she could see the pages in her mind.To prove this ,she could even say the poems backwards.After months of experiments with the girl,two scientists prepared a special test.They made a huge chessboard with ten thousands black and white squares put down in a half puzzled fashion.The girl studied the giant board for only a few minutes,month later,she could still describe the position of all the squares perfectly.
Read the following sets of numbers,it shouldn't take you more than about ten seconds,876,935,290,143,841,986,405.Believe it or not,there are people who can read these numbers as quick as flash and remember them for the rest of their lives.They have photograph memories that can see something and store it in their minds forever,like a camera captures something forever on film.Scientists think that about one person in 5000 has the remarkable power to remember. A 23 years old American University student may have her mark by being able to read poems in foreign languages she had never studied.She could also recite the poems later without any help.She explained that she could see the pages in her mind.To prove this ,she could even say the poems backwards.After months of experiments with the girl,two scientists prepared a special test.They made a huge chessboard with ten thousands black and white squares put down in a half puzzled fashion.The girl studied the giant board for only a few minutes,month later,she could still describe the position of all the squares perfectly.
